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Lilia Efimova and Stephanie Hendrick are looking for communities and virtual settlements in the blogosphere. Efimova maintains an interesting PhD blog about blog research, but why does she hang on to the concept of community, and the spatial metaphor of settlement? I would argue that we should use other concepts than community in order to analyze what is going on in the blogosphere. Actually, my claim is that the dominant metaphors of spatial settlement and community are blocking the study of blogs. Let's get rid of the community metaphor!
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This weeks perspective in the course Network theory is on Social Network Analysis. Though I acknowledge this can be a useful method for mapping networks and excavating groups or clusters, I still have the feeling that something important escapes in this method.
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